week's top stories palestine moves up to the international arena coming if you will recognize a state could pursue israel over claims of. egypt's power struggle spirals brother forces gather strength from a show that over the draft constitution on the president's self-imposed supreme authority. also headlining from us watch this space sort of more wiki leaks on the way it seems. promises more ground shaking revolution revelations next year talk to us all about it in about.

ten pm moscow time it's kevin owen here at r.t. tonight the big story of the week the palestinians moved a step closer to being fully recognized as independent the u.n. voted to upgrade the administration's diplomatic status to nonmember observer state now a middle east correspondent reports that on how the move may signal a change in the way the world sees israeli actions. it might have been a foregone conclusion but that didn't dampen the jubilation on the streets of palestine. overwhelming support for upgraded palestinian state has to a nonmember observer state in the un one hundred thirty eight voting in favor nine against forty one abstentions it's a report of political and legal victory to hold israel accountable in a practical way on its violations of the national law and its violations the rights of the palestinian people especially on the expansion of illegal settlements

palestinians can now apply to join the international criminal court and other global organizations giving them better bargaining chips in dealing with israel but it came at a price within hours tel aviv announced it was building three thousand more homes in the west bank a sure sign that the situation on the ground won't change overnight does it's not a step forward it's a step aside or even you know a step. back that's really the international community gives hand to this violation the u.s. was also quick to cast a cloud over the palestinian party mood the unfortunate and counterproductive resolution at the united nations general assembly that just passed today's grand pronouncements will soon fade and the palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and find that little about their lives has changed but washington's unflinching support

for tel aviv has separated from some of its longtime allies in the un more and more countries are turning their back on decades of negotiations that have led nowhere what has changed has been the continual failure of the us controlled so-called peace process to lead to any kind of an. to occupation and what i think was the catalyst here is that political pressure on other matters and on the palestinian authority from their own population from their own people who were saying you know what we've had twenty one years of failed diplomacy we're not looking for twenty two we want something different and that's something means a real shift in policy first and foremost the consensus on the international stage is that israel needs to stop building settlements deemed illegal by the un certainly be international community are you know is a horse. a provocation which heroes are cars. so

god. it was a little more than a year ago that palestinian president mahmoud abbas came to the u.n. in a bid for statehood since then tel aviv and washington's approach to the middle east conflict has gained them an ever shrinking minority of supporters the irony is that the bid was passed on the watches of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his rightwing foreign minister avigdor lieberman it was last year that lieberman boasted in the united nations that the moral majority of western states was with israel it now turns out he was wrong and whether israel wants it or not it's increasingly clear that something needs to give policy r.t. tel aviv earlier israeli college like true mary eisen told me that those who are movers directed against israel. the majority of israelis including this government by the way have stated clearly that they'd like to see palestine independent and both of us understand that there is

a difference between saying palestine independent and doing it on your own with the united nations without israel as a partner as if saying that the impediment is just the state that's here let's do this hand in hand without negotiations without us as a partner to do a one sided to impose it on israel and they feel the strong need to give a response as an israeli i can say that has to do with domestic politics personally i don't necessarily adhere to that stop i think you've heard a lot of criticism here in israel in linking it in such a way that is also about politics but of course israel maybe not helping the matter could be said on top of the and i was with the settlements israel's also announced it's not going to hold over a hundred million dollars of aid to the palestinians to pay back debts to israeli companies is really an option when of course you've got the world's largest refugee populations on your doorstep well that refugee population is something that needs to be taken care of and the case but i'm looking at these as part of the last four

years the decision that was made on thursday from my point of view as an israeli was anti israel not just pro palestinian i want to see something which is a win win situation one that's both palestinian and goes towards an end and state not just in rhetoric not just racial but in actuality and to do so those same palestinians have a house to come not to negotiation table for the last four years they have refused to do so they've refused time and again and we're all aware of that it was one of the main reasons that the forty states did abstain from the vote on thursday did so because of that rejection of israel it isn't just about being pro palestine it's also about accepting israel here and that's where we need to go egypt should as opposed decide on a new constitution in two weeks but if this. last week to go by won't be easy there was widespread anger as the president granted himself sweeping new powers while supreme court judges couldn't rule on the digital mysie of the draft charter there

after supporters of mohammed morsi stop getting into the chamber courts now suspended work indefinitely in protest not his time buttons in cairo. unrest returns to the streets after the revolution that toppled hosni mubarak after the election that brought in mohamed morsi egypt is in turmoil once again these round the clock protests have been going on for over a week now that resembles early two thousand and eleven when hosni mubarak was removed from power but that was nearly two years ago shouldn't the revolution have ended by now the mood on top risk where became defiant again after last week's to creep president morsi meaning his decisions would face new legal challenge we had the revolution to get rid of a tyrant a dictator. in in order to that we made elections and that evolution and with elections to choose someone to the present us and turned out

that this guy is also a tyrant himself however morsi claims his new powers are only temporary he nor any of the b.b.q. two in the world. will tell you it is a temporary thing it is full emergency it told us the serious the same thing city is a war under president obama and we stayed under emergency law for seventy years opponents say egypt's new constitution is too islamist and could set the country on the road to religious dictatorship but some sections of society are keen to show their support for morsi and their scorn for judges who would block the constitution and i'm here to support the president morsi from so patient might it be for his opposition for the constitutional court. or most of us knows that since it is the morsi is that he got elected by the people when it was at the fire. forded his failure the rifts in society are undeniable and perhaps more even than or thora tarion ism the fear is that chaos will tear apart any gains made by the revolution

this is something new in egypt that's why it's it's more city thing in a way where you find that people are facing each other in the streets in the ministrations and they're facing that type of violence from islamic groups egypt's president its government its courts its very constitution are now matters of heated debate one of the few things most egyptians do seem to agree on after the long night of mubarak a new day is proving elusive tom barton party. journalist neil clark says egyptians are also frustrated the lifespan of the getting harder for them since mubarak was ousted in the new leader isn't doing enough. i think more she's made a big mistake he you know he may have thought that basically people and the brits gone and therefore have a bit of leeway but no the underlying problems that corruption that the policies of mubarak out you know that people want to cling great with these policies they

wanted radical change not cosmetic change not merely a change of leader at the top and on with the same economic policies the same social policies etc they wanted a real radical change they're not getting that and so it's really at a at a crucial stage now where he's got to listen to the people egypt has heard it before that had a lot of temporary how is how they got down the years way governments have said that it was an attempt to basically send it out last year very very long time to mubarak and so i think there is that sort of fear among egyptians that what they're getting is a new pharaoh as i said they want they wanted more democracy back in twenty eleven but they also wanted fundamental economic changes which haven't come about because there are widespread concerns of the public about what morsi has done the last few days that's not what the people in the hundreds of thousands took to the streets when twenty eleven would have a new dictator but the underlying cause i think are economic factors and the fact is people voted for morsi because they thought he'd bring changes it but the economy has got worse one in four young egyptians are out of work poverty is on the rise so i think there is this one issue this constitutional crisis at the moment

but beyond that there are deeper issues and you have to be addressed. to a science promises new shop revelations to rival hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic cables published by wiki leaks two years ago in an interview with r.t. the other to the whistleblower website also claims the us is becoming a totalitarian state with the help of social media. the problem is that all the time everyone nearly everything they do on the internet is permanently recorded every web search to know what you were thinking one year two days three months ago you don't know but google knows it remembers the national security agency intercepts requests that the u.s. border it knows will be. national security agency whistleblower who was research head of the national security agency's signals intelligence division describes this as turning key totalitarianism that all the infrastructure has been built for absolute totalitarianism it's just

a matter of turning the key and actually has already been turned a little bit and it is now affecting people who are targeted for us drone strikes organizations like wiki leaks. national security reporters who are having their sources investigated is already partly turned and the question is will it go all the way. and just full interview any time you like would you. go to the streaming for you know it's also what i hear is well in two and a half hours time again. election turnout just tumbled in kuwait city your position would cut and run a few minutes we'll tell you why changing the rules has enraged the voters. plus the prime minister the press and the public but even for the demographics inquiry since britain's print media needs to be reined in regulation doesn't matter had.

a lovely quiet morning a family gently sleeps in just. tykes maryland when fifty armed f.b.i. agents storm the house and guns drawn despite the family pleading that they were unarmed the law enforcement agents opened fire on a weaponless teenager my asian huli thankfully sholay suffered minor flesh wounds but the key issue is that it remains unknown as to why the house was stormed so here in america for no reason guys in black uniform storm someone's house a loaded some rounds and left with no justification or explanation yes the family still doesn't know why this happened the f.b.i. is remaining silent you know i understand that there are some very bad individuals out there doing some very bad stuff at home but if you don't even really know whose

house or storming or why you're storming it then maybe you should lay off the siege for a while you know what take a few minutes to think it over have a cup of coffee and maybe even do a little google search about the fourth amendment but that's just my opinion.

share of seats in parliament after saturday's election but the opposition which boycotted the vote claimed the turnout was as low as twenty six percent dismissing therefore the lawmaking bodies are legitimate the opposition protests not until the u.s. backed monarchy dissolved. force from the gulf state. well voting in kuwait's highly controversial elections may be over but the battle over the country's political future has only just begun lots of new faces in the newly elected parliament which is deemed to be far more government friendly than the previous assembly but that is

because the opposition didn't find any candidates and oh boy cause of the vote that protest was deemed to be a success with official estimates of placing voter turnout at roughly thirty nine percent in stark contrast to the sixty percent voter turnout that we've seen in the last three elections in this country the opposition claims the turnout was in fact much lower and it's obvious the new body is illegitimate in fact they told the new assembly on constitutional and according to the popular committee for boycotting election votes the new body doesn't represent the majority of the great people and has lost the popular and political legitimacy the question is of course whether the opposition is now going to take its battle to the streets and whether the monarchy will respond with a heavy hand which now what happens here in kuwait has implications far beyond the country's borders as an opec member any sort of on a rest is bound to have an effect on world oil prices the country also serves as a hub for the pentagon's ground forces with thousands of american combat troops

stationed here as a military counterweight to iran the gulf monarchies as a whole have been struggling to stave off the effects of the arab spring with varying degrees of success kuwait is largely seen as the most tolerant of all the trees but the worry here is that the trend could be reversed over the past few months the country has seen increasingly violent escalating protests between the opposition and security forces with the latter using tear gas stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse crowds political parties are banned as are political gatherings of more than twenty people and activists are claiming of a clampdown against dissent here in the scan tree authorities did allow thousands of the opposition demonstrators to gather in a largely peaceful rally on. friday of course the coming weeks are bound to test the limits of the government's tolerance as well as the self control of the opposition what happens here in kuwait could very well write the next chapter of the arab spring you see catherine of parties who wait britain's free press learned

who could face its toughest regulation three hundred years in the week it crossed the line when caught hacking the voice mails of royalty celebrities and a murder victim for r t reports now on the inquiry that exposed the seedy relationship between the papers the police and the politicians. revelations. from a wave of public revulsion and one of the big scandals. at the time that. not just three. but downing street as well as the allegations went all the way to the heart the british government to douse the flames number ten ordered the creation of the leveson inquiry in order to investigate the claims and now two years in the making after a chorus line of celebrity witness says and millions in taxpayers' money the

leveson report damning about the press and heavily critical of both the police and the government for what it says was their cozy relationship with the media cameron has been shown with hunt to have been actually batting for the murdoch empire was part of all of this so you know i think there needs to be a bit more of a focus on the failures of the police. to do anything about these criminal acts lord leveson his recommendation is behind standards of self-regulation by the press in forced by legislation and that's what critics fear could stifle the already declining newspaper industry and deal a huge blow to the freedom of the press in the u.k. is there any way in which you can be a little bit censored or a little bit monitored and most people say no with britain now in the midst of a post leveson hangover it's the country's two top politicians who are likely to be the most embarrassed david cameron might be suffering from some uncomfortable

flashbacks back in october the prime minister promised to support the leveson recommendations as long as they went bonkers cut to last week i have serious concerns and misgivings on this recommendation they break into issues of principle practicality but david cameron's change of heart when. guarding the inquiry's findings won't be causing him half the headache that nick clegg might be nursing at the moment the liberal democrat deputy prime minister used to talk about liberal democracy a labor previous essence will be remembered as the government who took your freedoms away we want to be remembered as the ones who gave them but not anymore here he is after leveson published their report i have always said that i would support lord justice leveson reforms providing they are proportionate and workable and i will come on to why i believe that is the case as far as the report's

corporate core proposal is concerned namely a tougher system of self-regulation supported by new independent checks recognised in law recent polls suggest that over two thirds of britons have little or no faith in the newspaper industry anymore and with revelations about the strong links between the police the politicians and the media it's not only trust in fleet street that when dealing i think going to be the word you know obviously we've been very worried about murdoch and his press sometimes i think it's always gone on between should keep an eye on it and be aware of it. with opinions raging for and against new legislation it's turning into a no win situation for those in power by questioning the results of the inquiry david cameron looked to his critics like he abandoned the victims of media intrusion for some good press which is what got the government in trouble in the first place polly boyko r t london. explosions in syria's western

city of homs have killed at least fifteen people and left more than thirty injured those blasts happened near a mosque and the stadium witnesses say there were two separate car bomb attacks is fear the number of dead could rise with many of the wounded in critical condition tonight it comes amid reports the syrian warplanes have hit rebel targets in the suburbs of the. mascot's where fighting between militias and the regime troops has been raging for months now. but some support meantime for syrian rebels continued just last week with front supplicating one of the house million dollars in aid to the syrian opposition washington is now meeting efforts to to make the new group a government in exile to serve as a counterweight to the assad regime russia fired back saying it's unacceptable to throw support behind the coalition stands against the officially recognized government professor paul shelby foote from california state university told us france's only consume short term financial goals. krantz major interest would be to continue with soros of armaments throughout the world that industry but it i don't

think it really cured sir. just as they didn't here in the case of libya all they were close to were almost got nothing they didn't really care who took over afterwards the. problem with the so-called syrian opposition is that they are not united the elite the unites the militant they would like to remove the current government they come from a very wide range of. religious viewpoints. viewpoint origins are their thing ever going to succeed in syria they were not be able to come together and they would be in no round of fighting to determine who will dominate all the other groups. after the break trace the emergence of the occupy movement is the people's force to be reckoned with is it spread across america to make a program after this break. in

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